{"id":14058,"date":"2023-11-14T19:24:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=14058"},"modified":"2023-11-14T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:24:16","slug":"bartica-triathlon-showcases-athletes-skill-and-endurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/bartica-triathlon-showcases-athletes-skill-and-endurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartica Triathlon Showcases Athletes&#8217; Skill and Endurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Ministry of Tourism organized a successful triathlon event in Bartica, aiming to boost the development of sport tourism in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Athletes joined forces to compete in a challenging combination of a 100-meter swim, a 1.6 km run, and a 3 km cycling race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition featured 12 teams vying for a one-million-dollar cash prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trio of Jamaul John, Tyron Stellingburgh, and Tyrese Simon secured the coveted first place, narrowly defeating their rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second spot went to the team of Curtis Dey, Orlando Tracy, and Fitzroy Thom, while Alexander Leung and Kennard Profit, competing as a duo, claimed third place after their teammate was unable to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the swimming leg, top finishers Leung, Stellingburg, and Thom worked hard to give their teams an early advantage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The athletes then faced a challenging 1.6 km run along Bartica&#8217;s roadways, followed by a final 3 km cycling race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyclist Jamaul John, sharing his experience, expressed trust in his teammates&#8217; competitiveness throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fitzroy Thom, representing the runners-up, expressed gratitude for being part of the event and looked forward to more challenges in the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third-place team of Leung and Profit expressed their pleasure at achieving a top-three finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cash prizes for the event were provided by the Ministry of Tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tourism organized a successful triathlon event in Bartica, aiming to boost the development of sport tourism in the country. Athletes joined forces to compete in a challenging&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14061,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions\/14061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}